Ancestor Details

Name of Ancestor: John McKay Finlayson

Ancestor's date of birth: 06/11/1866

Ancestor's date of death: 05/10/1941

Cause of Death: Old Age

Service Number: 128

Colony or State of enlistment: VIC, Place of Enlistment: Detail not provided

Unit: 4^th Victorian Imperial Bushman

Rank attained in Boer War: SGT, Date Effective: 1900

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service.

Murray Page: 263

Contingent: Fourth Victorian

Ship: Victorian, Date of Sailing: 01/05/1900

Memorial details: Buried at Echuca Cemetery Victoria

Awards/Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps: Cape Colony,Orange free State, Transvaal, Rhodesia, SA1901.

Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: Departed from Australia as a corporal, promoted quartermaster-sergeant in South Africa. Served May 1900 - June 1901 in Rhodesia, west Transvaal under Cape Colony under Henniker including relief of Philipstown (11 February 1901), capture of Boer guns at Read's Drift (23 February), and capture of Boer patrol near Doornkloof (1 March 1901). May have served garrison duty in Rhodesia in 1901.

Service and life after the Boer War: No details provided.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: David Finlayson, Briar Hill TAS
Relationship to Ancestor: Great Nephew